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Detecting Nuclear Weapons Using the Cell Phone Network

2008-02-01 12:54:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Nuclear Engineering Tiny solid-state radiation sensors are commercially available. The detection system would require additional circuitry and would not add significant bulk to portable electronic products, Fischbach said I'm not convinced it's a good idea to deploy such a system, but I like the idea of piggy-backing a nationwide sensor...
 
Tags: network, detection system, phones, system, cell phones, radiation sensors, nationwide sensor network, portable electronic products, require additional circuitry
 
 
 
 
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Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker?

2008-02-24 12:36:31 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Guardian has a two page spread on the background of some of the Wikileaks people, the Wikileaks scheme for "an open-source democratic intelligence agency" and the possible location of its secret servers an abandoned US nuclear weapons base at Greenham Common and a radar station in
 
Tags: nuclear weapons base, page spread, greenham common, wikileaks scheme, radar station, wikileaks people, secret servers, location, background
 
 
 
 
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How To: Visit a Secret Nuclear Bunker

2008-06-11 13:31:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
The first rule of "Site R," the Pentagon's nuclear war bunker, is: You do not talk about Site R. The second rule is: You do not post Site R information on the Web. Well, one out of two ain't bad. Danger Room has the documents from this mysterious retreat
 
Tags: post site, site, nuclear war bunker, mysterious retreat, rule, pentagon, documents, information, danger
 
 
 
 
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Ssshhh......Wackenhut might be sleeping.

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2008-01-06 03:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. He was so disturbed by Wakenhut's guards sleeping on duty that he reported it to supervisors. The supervisors told him to be a "team player Not satisfied with being told to look the other way, Mr. Beal reported the matter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Commission dropped the matter after the plant's...
 
Tags: wackenhut, fired wackenhut, exeleon fired wackenhut, wackenhut supervisors, supervisors, security guards, guards, wackenhut guards, wackenhut corp
 
 
 
 
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Time to wake up and smell the coffee - literally.

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2008-01-18 04:17:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...nuclear weapons plant in Tenn. The guards are employed by WACKENHUT Services Inc The case of WACKENHUT Services Inc., sleeping guards came under scrutiny after the parent company, The WACKENHUT Corp., lost a contract to secure 10 other nuclear facilities after guards were caught sleeping at another nuclear facility in PA. We recently covered...
 
Tags: guards, facility, nuclear facility, prime terrorist target, terrorist, wackenhut services, nuclear facilities, facilities, dirty bomb
 
 
 
 
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Nuke Plant Shutdown Due To Upgrade

2008-06-08 02:53:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer The incident occurred on March 7 at Unit 2 of the Hatch nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia. The trouble started after an engineer from Southern Company, which manages the technology...
 
Tags: plant, shutdown, single computer, safety systems, systems, data, computer, nuclear power plant, diagnostic data
 
 
 
 
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People and Security Rules

2008-04-14 06:47:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...nuclear warheads being flown over the U.S., there's an interesting commentary on people and security rules: Indeed, the gaff [sic] that allowed six nukes out over three major American cities (Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark.) could have been avoided if the Air Force personnel had followed procedure Let's not forget that...
 
Tags: rules, security rules, security, people, tight rules, tight, security failure, air force personnel, nuclear information project
 
 
 
 
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Worry Over Fate Of Nuke Bomb Data

2008-06-16 10:51:59 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...nuclear weapon found on his networks computers Working in secret for two years, investigators have tracked the digitized blueprints to Khan computers in Switzerland, Dubai, Malaysia and Thailand. The blueprints are electronic and could be rapidly reproducible for creating a weapon relatively small and easy to hide, making it attractive to...
 
Tags: weapon, compact nuclear weapon, atomic black market, blueprints, abdul qadeer khan, pakistans nuclear-weapons program, operation, khan operation, rapidly reproducible
 
 
 
 
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The Neosploit Malware Kit Updated with Snapshot ActiveX Exploit

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2008-07-15 17:18:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Nuclear Grabber Kit The Apophis Kit The FirePack Exploitation Kit Localized to Chinese MPack and IcePack Localized to Chinese The FirePack Exploitation Kit - Part Two The FirePack Web Malware Exploitation Kit The WebAttacker in Action Nuclear Malware Kit The Random JS Malware Exploitation Kit Metaphisher Malware Kit Spotted in the Wild The...
 
Tags: neosploit malware kit, malware kit, nuclear malware kit, kit, metaphisher malware kit, icepack malware kit, nuclear grabber kit, apophis kit, neosploit exploit kit
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab